Violet Beauregarde | Total Movies Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Violet Beauregarde is a fictional character in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Violet Beauregarde, 'a girl who chews gum all day', is one of the Golden Ticket winners, from Miles City, Montana in the 1971 film and from Atlanta, Georgia in the 2005 film. Violet is the third child to find a Golden Ticket and the second to be ejected from the tour. Violet chews gum obsessively and boasts that she has been chewing the same piece for three months solid. In the 2005 film, she is also aggressively competitive and has won trophies for a variety of sports and activities, including gum-chewing, the producers having expanded on her character to make her flaw more than the simple habit of chewing gum to make her an example of 'girl power' taken to the extreme. When Wonka shows the group around the Inventing Room, he stops to display a new type of gum he is working on that doubles as a filling three-course meal.

Violet is intrigued and, despite Wonka's protests, snatches and chews the gum. She is delighted by its effects but, when she gets to the dessert - blueberry pie - her skin's pigment changes to blue. In the 2005 version and the novel (with the exception of some differences), Violet's clothes darken, stretch and become glued to her body due to the juice making her skin very sticky. Violet then swells and grows into a circular shape, with her limbs and head pulled into her body. Within a minute of chewing the gum, Violet becomes a super-heavy human blueberry, weighing over 1 ton. Veruca then jokes that Mrs. Beauregarde could enter Violet into a county fair. This causes Willy Wonka to have the Oompa-Loompas roll her down to the Juicing Room to have the juice squeezed out of her. She is later seen emerging from the factory more flexible but with her skin still colored blue.

In the 1971 film, although she still turns blue and swells into a blueberry, she does not grow to be as large (only gaining a few centimeters of height and nowhere near the same girth as the 2005 film) but everyone is still surprised. Even Veruca, Violet's supposed enemy, looks on in fear. She wears a red buckled belt which breaks off of her waist to emphasize the swelling stage. While her father argues with Willy Wonka over her early stages of her endgame, saying he will "break (Willy Wonka) for this," Violet continues to yell for help. By the time she has inflated to full size, she is now in an oval-shaped form, her head, hands and feet sticking out. During The Oompa-Loompas' musical number, they roll her around for a while before finally rolling her off to the juicing room, followed by another Oompa-Loompa dragging Violet's father along, with his parting line of "I've got a blueberry for a daughter." Violet's fate is unknown in this film, as we do not see her leaving the factory or anywhere else later on in the film.

In the book, both of Violet's parents go to the factory with her. In the 1971 film, she is accompanied by her father, a fast-talking used car salesman. In the 2005 film, she is the only child to come from a single parent family, living with her mother. It is implied that Mrs. Beauregarde is primarily responsible for Violet's competitive nature. In the 1971 film, Wonka states that if the blueberry juice is not 'squeezed' out of her immediately, Violet will explode. While this is not explicitly stated in the 2005 film, it is implied due to her enormous swelling. SparkNotes: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Character List Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Mr. Willy Wonka - The eccentric owner of the Wonka chocolate factory. Mr.Wonka is the most renowned candy maker in the world and an endless combination of opposing parts. He is old but filled with a boundless energy. He is physically small, but his persona is larger than life. He is also both charming and insensitive.

His decision to open his factory to five lucky children is actually a calculated ploy to find the perfect child to take over his factory. He is looking for a properly obsequious child to whom he can teach all the secrets of his factory. Charlie Bucket is that boy. Read an in-depth analysis of Mr. Willy Wonka. Charlie Bucket - The protagonist of the novel. Charlie is unassuming and respectful toward everyone in his life. He is undernourished but refuses to ever take an extra portion of food because it would deprive another member of his family. He must walk by Mr. Wonka’s factory every day on his way to school and smell the tantalizing smell of chocolate as his stomach grumbles. He is almost always cold because he does not have an adequate jacket. Even though he has every reason to complain, he never does. Charlie is exactly the kind of child that Mr. Wonka wants. Read an in-depth analysis of Charlie Bucket. Grandpa Joe - Charlie’s paternal grandfather. Grandpa Joe spends all his time in bed with the other three Bucket grandparents. He is extremely imaginative and fun loving. He realizes a return of his childish energy when Charlie finds the golden ticket. He thinks Mr.

Wonka’s idea to send out golden tickets is a marketing stroke of genius, and he continues to think Mr. Wonka is brilliant while the other parents think he is mad. Grandpa Joe is kind and loving and also sensible. He is Charlie’s greatest friend and confidant. Read an in-depth analysis of Grandpa Joe. Augustus Gloop - A fat boy who loves nothing but eating. Augustus is rude and insubordinate in his never-ending quest to fill his own face. His parents choose to indulge him rather than listen to his whining. He suffers for his greed in the factory: while sucking from the chocolate river, he falls in and is sucked up by one of the super pipes. He comes out changed on the other side, as evidenced by his new thin body. Veruca Salt - A spoiled brat. Veruca demands anything she wants and throws tantrums until her parents meet her demands. She is mean and completely self-involved, and her parents always acquiesce to her wishes. Veruca’s impetuousness causes her trouble at the factory.

She demands to own one of Wonka’s trained squirrels, but when she marches in to claim it, it deems her a “bad nut” and sends her down the garbage chute. Mingled with garbage, she comes out changed at the end of the story. Violet Beauregarde - An avid gum chewer. Violet’s attempt to beat a gum-chewing record completely consumes her. At the factory her gum-chewing antics become her downfall when she grabs an experimental piece of gum against Mr. Wonka’s advice. She eagerly chews the gum and turns into a giant blueberry. After being juiced by Oompa-Loompas, she leaves the factory changed. Mike Teavee - A boy who cares only for television. The more guns and violence on a show, the more Mike likes it. Mike is slightly more complex than the other bad children in that he is smart enough to realize when Mr. Wonka is lying to him. Still, his attempts to get answers to his questions go completely unheeded. At the factory he wants nothing more than to check out the chocolate television room. Once there he spies the opportunity to be on television himself.

Without regard for his own safety, he engineers a filming of himself and ends up shrinking down to a couple of inches. The Oompa-Loompas stretch him out to twice his normal height in the end. The Oompa-Loompas - Fun-loving dwarves hailing from Loompaland. Mr. Wonka’s diminutive work force feasts on cacao beans and performs all of the work in the Wonka chocolate factory. They also enjoy dancing, beating drums, and singing songs about what happens to bad children. Mr. Bucket - Charlie’s hard-working father. Mr. Bucket works tirelessly to provide for his family, which includes two sets of grandparents. In spite of his efforts, Mr. Bucket barely earns enough money for his family to survive. Mrs. Bucket - Charlie’s mother. Mrs. Bucket worries constantly about her son. She unfailingly tries to give Charlie her portion of a meal, which he always refuses. She is extremely giving in her efforts to take care of the four invalided grandparents with whom she lives. Grandma Josephine - Charlie’s paternal grandmother. Grandma Josephine, like her fellow grandparents, spends all her time in bed. She loves Charlie and is quick to judge others.

Grandpa George - Charlie’s maternal grandfather. Grandpa George is pessimistic and terse. He does not seem as judgmental as the grandmothers and clearly loves Charlie. Grandma Georgina - Charlie’s maternal grandmother. She is the mirror image of Grandma Josephine. She too is very quick to judge others. Mr. and Mrs. Gloop - Augustus’s parents. The Gloops are moronic and indulgent of their son’s overeating. Mrs. Gloop is proud of her son’s appetite and thinks it better that he eat than be a nuisance. Mr. and Mrs. Salt - Veruca’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Salt are at their daughter’s beck and call. Whenever she screams and cries they give in to her every demand. Mr. Salt goes so far as to divert his entire factory from shelling peanuts to shelling candy bars in order to get Veruca the golden ticket she demands. Mr. and Mrs. Beauregarde - Violet’s parents. The Beauregardes are weak and ineffectual. They let their daughter talk back to them and ignore her insults. Mr. and Mrs. Teavee - Mike’s parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Teavee are hands-off parents. They allow the television to parent their son. Messrs. Fickelgruber, Prodnose, and Slugworth - Wonka’s main competitors. Fickelgruber, Prodnose, and Slugworth each allegedly planted spies at the Wonka factory in order to steal Wonka’s candy-making secrets. The thefts put Mr. Wonka out of business for a long time. One day, Mr. Wonka’s factory mysteriously reopened, though no one has ever been seen going in or out since. Children's Book Reviews - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl Reviewed by Kilmihil Children’s Book Club Charlie Bucket lives with his family, Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina and his mother and father. They live in a little house and are very poor. His grandparents are elderly and stay in bed all day long. Charlie’s father works hard in a toothpaste factory but no matter how hard he works he never makes enough money to feed his family. They live on cabbage and cabbage soup, and Charlie is always hungry. Charlie loves chocolate and gets one chocolate bar for his birthday every year.

The great Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory is close to where Charlie lives. Mr. Wonka shut himself off from the public years before because his workers were selling his new ideas to rival companies. He makes an announcement that he is opening his factory to the five lucky people who find a golden ticket in his chocolate bars. The lucky winners are Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee , Violet Beauregarde and Charlie Bucket. Mr Wonka’s Factory is full of exciting surprises. Charlie and the children see the Oompa Loompas and all the amazing things in the factory. The greedy Augustus falls into a pool of chocolate and has to be extracted from the pool filter. Violet, is addicted to chewing gum and turns blue with Wonka's new chewing gum. Mike Teavee, a very rude TV addict, is shrunk to TV size, and the nasty and very demanding, Veruca Salt is thrown into the garbage chute to be incinerated. Charlie, our hero, is the last remaining child and wins the prize. Mr Wonka wants him and his family to live with him in the factory and to take over the factory when he gets old.

This book was enjoyed by the members of the Kilmihil book club. They liked the humour and thought the story had a good ending. The hero Charlie was rewarded and the nasty spoiled children all got what they deserved. Rating: 8 out of 10. Book | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Wiki Share Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl . The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric candymaker Willy Wonka . Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1967. The book was adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator , was written by Roald Dahl in 1972. Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series, but had never finished it.

The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl 's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s ) Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers, and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies into the other's factory, posing as employees. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Roald Dahl to write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. [1 ] Contents Edit Charlie Bucket , a nice boy from a poor family, lives with his parents and both sets of elderly grandparents (Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina). From these four, especially Grandpa Joe, he hears stories about the candymaker Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory he built in Charlie's hometown. As time passed, rival chocolate makers sent in spies, posing as workers, in order to steal his recipes. Frustrated by this, Mr.

Wonka decided to send home his workers and close the factory. Years of silence passed until one day, when the factory mysteriously came back to life. The gates remain locked however; the factory has resumed operations with workers whose identity is a mystery. Nobody, including Wonka, is seen going in or out of the factory anymore. One day, the headline of Mr. Bucket's evening paper states that Wonka is holding a worldwide contest, in which five Golden Tickets are hidden under the wrappers of his candy bars; the prize for those who find them is a day-long tour of the factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate. The contest becomes a worldwide mania, with people resorting to increasingly desperate and unscrupulous measures to find the tickets, and anyone who succeeds becomes front-page headline news and a worldwide celebrity. Charlie and four bad children, the gluttonous Augustus Gloop , spoiled Veruca Salt , gum-addicted Violet Beauregarde , and television-obsessed Mike Teavee , win the contest and go on the tour, led by Wonka. Grandpa Joe accompanies Charlie, while each of the other four children are chaperoned by both of their parents.

As the group moves from room to room, the tour turns into a punishment for the bad children as one child after another falls victim to his/her particular vices and is removed. Augustus falls into a chocolate river and is sucked up a pipe to the fudge room; Violet turns into a blueberry after consuming experimental chewing gum; Veruca is thrown down a garbage chute after attempting to take one of Wonka's nut-cracking squirrels for her own; and Mike is shrunk after meddling with dangerous television equipment. They leave the factory with permanent reminders of their misbehavior as well as their lifetime supply of chocolate: Augustus is squeezed thin, Violet is purple, Veruca is covered in garbage, and Mike is ten feet tall and very thin (Wonka had him stretched to repair the damage caused by the TV equipment). Charlie is the only child who does not misbehave throughout the factory. Seeing that he is the only one left, Wonka announces that he has "won." He receives the entire factory and will take over the company after Wonka retires. The reason Wonka had sent out the Golden Tickets was to find a child to be his heir, as he himself has no family to carry on his work.

Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe board a special glass elevator . As they are propelled up from the factory, the book ends, but the story continues in the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator . Main Rooms Edit The Chocolate Room is the first room that the many different people are able to go into. It is said that everything in this room is eatable: the pavements, the bushes, even the grass. There are trees made of taffy that grow jelly apples, bushes that sprout lollipops, mushrooms that spurt whipped cream, pumpkins filled with sugar cubes instead of seeds, jelly bean stalks, and spotty candy cubes. The main icon of the room is the Chocolate River, where the chocolate is mixed and churned by the waterfall, but must not be touched by human hands. Willy Wonka proclaims, "There is no other factory in the world that mixes its chocolate by waterfall." Pipes that hang on the ceiling come down and suck up the chocolate, then send it to other rooms of the factory, such as the Fudge Room, and Augustus Gloop is sucked into one pipe after falling into the river while drinking from it.

[ edit ] The Inventing Room Edit The Inventing Room is the second room that the tour goes through. Mr. Wonka states that all of his ideas are simmering and bubbling in this room, and that Slugworth would give his false teeth to stay five minutes inside. This room is home to Wonka's new—and still insufficiently tested—candies, such as Everlasting Gobstoppers, Hair Toffee, and Wonka's greatest idea so far, Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum. This candy is a three course dinner all in itself, containing, "Tomato soup, roast beef and baked potato, and blueberry pie and ice cream". However, once the chewer gets to the dessert, the side effect is that they turn into a giant "blueberry"; this happens to Violet Beauregarde after she rashly grabs and consumes the experimental gum. Violet is subsequently taken to the Juicing Room so that the juice can be removed from her immediately. The tour then leaves the Inventing Room. [ edit ] The Nut Sorting Room Edit After an exhausting jog down a series of corridors, Wonka allows the party to rest briefly outside the Nut Room, though he forbids them to enter.

This room is where Wonka uses trained squirrels to break open good walnuts for use in his sweets. All bad walnuts are thrown down in a garbage chute which leads to an incinerator. Veruca Salt desperately wants a squirrel, but becomes furious when Wonka tells her she cannot have one. She tries to grab a squirrel for herself, but it rejects her as a "bad nut" and an army of squirrels haul her across the floor and throw her down the garbage chute. Wonka assures her parents that she is stuck on top of the garbage chute and they quickly enter the Nut Room. As Mrs. Salt leans over the hole to look for Veruca, the squirrels rush up behind her and push her in. The same fate befalls Mr. Salt as he watches her disappear into the chute. In the 1971 movie version, the nut sorting room is an egg room, with large geese laying golden chocolate eggs. The sorting mechanism is the same, but Veruca places herself on the mechanism while trying to get a goose.

However, in the 2005 movie version, it had followed the original storyline with Veruca wanting a squirrel and being rejected and thrown down a garbage chute.And her daddy have to go inside the chute to get her but she went inside the rubbish room in 1998. [ edit ] The Television Room Edit The Television Room is home to Wonka's latest invention, Television Chocolate, where they take a giant bar of Wonka chocolate and shrink it, then send it through the air in a million pieces to appear in a television. The bar can be taken from the screen, and even consumed. At Wonka's behest, Charlie takes the newly shrunk bar (Mike believes the bar is just an image on a screen). Mike Teavee is amazed at this new discovery, and attempts to send himself through television, resulting in him being shrunk down to be no more than an inch high. Wonka suggests that he be put through the Gum Stretcher, where he tests the stretchiness of gum. He also planned to give him vitamins, notably Vitamin Wonka. The Oompa Loompas escort the TeaVee family to the Gum Stretcher.

In the 2005 and 1971 movie versions, Mike Teavee is stretched by the Taffy Puller. In the 1971 version, Mike's mother accompanies him to the factory, while his father accompanies him in the 2005 film. Square Candies that Look Round Pishlets for children who can't whistle The Rock-Candy Mine: "10,000 feet deep!" Toffee-Apple Trees for Planting out in your Garden Wriggle-Sweets that Wriggle Delightfully in your Tummy after Swallowing [ edit ] Controversy and Original Story Edit Responding to criticisms from the NAACP , Canadian children's author Eleanor Cameron , and others for the book's portrayal of the Oompa Loompas as dark skinned and skinny African pygmies who worked in the factory for cacao beans , Dahl changed some of the text, and Schindelman replaced some illustrations (the illustrations for the British version were also changed). That new version was released in 1973 in the USA. In the revised version the Oompa Loompas are described as having funny long golden-brown hair and rosy-white skin.

Their origins were also changed from Africa to fictional Loompaland. Other minor changes appeared in the new version, notably the replacement of pre-decimal with decimal money. The original book was Charlie's Chocolate Boy and was about ten horrid children who won tickets to the weekly Wonka's Factory visit. Roald completely re-wrote it when his nephew Nicholas said "Uncle Roald, I don't like it at all".[ citation needed ] Edit In 2005, a short chapter which had been removed during the editing of the book circulated, entitled "Spotty Powder", was published. The chapter featured the elimination of Miranda Piker, a " teacher's pet " with a headmaster father. Wonka introduces the group to a new candy that will make children temporarily appear sick so that they can miss school that day, which enrages Miranda and her father. They vow to stop the candy from being made, and storm into the secret room where it is made. Two screams are heard, and Wonka agrees with the distraught Mrs.

Piker that they were surely ground into Spotty Powder, and were indeed needed all along for the recipe, as "We’ve got to use one or two schoolmasters occasionally or it wouldn’t work." He then reassures Mrs. Piker that he was joking. Mrs. Piker is escorted to the boiler room by the Oompa-Loompas, who sing a short song about how delicious Miranda's classmates will find her. [5 ] On July 11, 2005, the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video game was released for the PlayStation 2 , Xbox , Nintendo GameCube , Nintendo DS , Wii , Game Boy Advance and Windows PC by developers Backbone and High Voltage Software and publisher 2K Games . On 1 April 2006, the British theme park Alton Towers opened a family boat ride attraction themed around the story. The ride features a boat section where guests travel around the chocolate factory in bright pink boats on a chocolate river. In the final stage of the ride, guests will enter one of two glass elevators where they will join Willy Wonka as they travel the factory, eventually shooting up and out through the glass roof.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Literawiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1,305pages on Share Front cover of an American first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from 1964. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an award-winning children's fantasy novel of twenty-eight chapters by the British author Roald Dahl . It was first published in the United States in 1964 and first published in the United Kingdom in 1967. The novel's protagonist is a very poor boy named Charlie Bucket. Due to his family's extreme poverty, he rarely gets to eat chocolate but he is fascinated by the chocolate factory in his town, owned by the eccentric and mysterious Willy Wonka. No visitors have been inside Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for years. Consequently, the anouncement that five Golden Tickets, each of which will allow one child and up to two accompanying adults to visit the factory, have been hidden in Wonka chocolate bars that have sent around the world, causes considerable excitement. Through amazing good luck, Charlie Bucket finds the last Golden Ticket. Due to their greed and general bad behavior, the other four children meet with accidents which force them to drop out of the factory tour.

Willy Wonka then reveals his real purpose in sending out the Golden Tickets. The inspiration for the novel can be traced back to Roald Dahl's childhood. The British chocolate manufacturer's Cadbury carried out market research by sending out free samples of their, as yet, unreleased products to the boarding school which Dahl atteneded and, in return, asked for the boys' opinions about the chocolates. This caused Dahl to fantasize about the people whose job it was to create new kinds of chocolate bars and about Mr. Cadbury, who would have to approve the new products. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been adapted for other media numerous times. It has been adapted for the cinema twice, as Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971 and as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. Dahl wrote a sequel to the novel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, which was published in 1972. Contents [ show ] Plot Charlie Bucket is a boy from an extremely poor family. He lives in a very small house with his parents and four grandparents. All four grandparents are completely bedridden but are forced to share the same bed.

Charlie's father, who works at the toothpaste factory, is the family's sole breadwinner and conditions worsen when he loses his job. Due to his family's extreme poverty, Charlie rarely gets to eat chocolate, even though he lives in the town where the world famous chocolate factory of Willy Wonka is located. Charlie loves to hear stories about the factory and its owner from his Grandpa Joe. Charlie learns that Willy Wonka was forced to close his factory after it was infiltrated by industrial spies who stole all his trade secrets. However, the factory suddenly reopened one day and has been in operation ever since, even though no workers have ever been seen entering or leaving the building. Willy Wonka now guards the secrets of his chocolate making by never allowing any visitors into his factory. Sand sculpture which depicts Charlie Bucket, Willy Wonka, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee. Photographed in Weston super Mare, England on May 5, 2014. One day, the Bucket family are surprised to read in the newspaper that Willy Wonka is allowing five children, who find his special Golden Tickets, and their parents to visit his factory.

The five Golden Tickets have been placed beneath the wrappers of Wonka chocolate bars which have been sent around the world. Four tickets are found and the Bucket family read in the newspaper about the children who find them. They are a chocolate-loving glutton named Augustus Gloop, a champion gum chewer named Violet Beauregarde, a spoiled rich brat named Veruca Salt and a fan of violent television programs named Mike Teavee. From their descriptions in the newspaper, the Bucket family find each of the children disgusting. After four tickets have been found, Charlie receives a Wonka chocolate bar for his birthday. He is disappointed to find that there is no Golden Ticket inside. Some time afterwards, Charlie finds a dollar bill [1] in the street. He uses the money to but two Wonka bars. The second bar contains the last Golden Ticket. On hearing the news, Charlie's Grandpa Joe leaps out of bed for the first time in years and asks Charlie to go with him to the factory. At the beginning of the tour, the visitors learn that the factory is now entirely staffed by Ooompa Loompas, little people who live inside Wonka's factory and who are prepared to work for nothing but cocoa beans.

[2] One by one, the other four children meet with accidents which mean that they cannot continue the tour. Augustus Gloop falls into some liquid chocolate and is sucked up by a pipe. Violet Beauregarde chews a piece of experimental chewing gum which is supposed to taste like a three course meal. She refuses to follow Willy Wonka's advice and spit it out before she gets to the dessert part of the meal, blueberry pie, and begins to turn into a giant blueberry as a result. Veruca Salt notices a room full of squirrels, used by Willy Wonka to sort good nuts from bad nuts. When Wonka refuses to sell a squirrel to Veruca Salt's father, she enters the room to take one. The squirrels judge Veruca Salt to be a bad nut and throw her down the garbage chute. Upon discovering that Wonka has invented a device which will allow giant chocolate bars to be transmitted from a TV studio to people's television sets, where they will appear as solid, normal sized chocolate bars, Mike Teavee wants to try the device out on himself. As a result, he becomes only a few inches tall.

Noticing that Charlie Bucket is the only child left, Willy Wonka reveals that the reason he sent out the five Golden Tickets was to find an heir. He intended to leave his factory to the "least rotten" of the five children and that child is Charlie. Taking the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe leave the factory and go to Charlie's house. Charlie's parents and grandparents are told that they can come to live at Wonka's factory and they will never be hungry again.

Awards Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has received the following awards: New England Round Table of Children's Librarians Award (1972, USA) Surrey School Award (1976, UK) Millenium Children's Book Award (2000, UK) Blue Peter Book Award (2000, UK) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is included in the National Education Association's "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" [3] Adaptations People dressed as Willy Wonka as he appears in the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (on the left) and as he appears in the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (on the right). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been filmed twice, as the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, which was directed by Mel Stuart and which stars Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket, and as the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was directed by Tim Burton and which stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket.

Both films are reasonably faithful adaptations of the novel and both further flesh out the characters of Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee. The 2005 film adds to the backstory of Willy Wonka, making use of material from Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator in doing so. The novel has often been read aloud on children's television programs around the world and there have been numerous radio and stage adaptations, many of which have made use of songs from the 1971 movie. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Musical, a theatrical adaptation with all new songs, officially opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London's West End on June 25, 2013. An opera based on the novel, The Golden Ticket, written by the American composer Peter Ash and the British librettist Donald Sturrock, was commissioned by the American Lyric Theater and approved by Roald Dahl's heirs. it premiered at the Opera Theatre of saint Louis on June 13, 2010. Footnotes ↑ In recent British editions, Charlie finds a fifty pence piece instead of a dollar bill.

↑ In the first edition, the Ooompa Loompas were described as African pygmies. Dahl responded to criticism that depicting Africans as working for nothing but cocoa beans was racist by altering their description in the 1973 edition. From the 1973 edition onwards, the Oompa Loompas have been described as having rosy skin and long blond hair. Their homeland was also changed from Africa to the fictional Loompaland. ↑ Based on a 2007 online poll, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is ranked fifty-seventh in the list of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" on the National Education Association website. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 212pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Author The Magic Finger (1966) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl . This story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka . Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1967. The book was adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator , was written by Roald Dahl in 1972. Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series but never finished it. The story was inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products.

At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often try to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story. Contents Edit The story revolves around a poor young boy named Charlie Bucket born to a penniless, starving family. He resides with both his paternal and maternal grandparents, who are bedridden. Along with Charlie's mother and father, they dwell in a dilapidated, tiny house. Charlie is fascinated by the universally-celebrated chocolate factory located in his hometown owned by famous chocolatier Willy Wonka. His Grandpa Joe often tells him stories about Wonka and his mysterious chocolate factory, how it had been shuttered for years, and how it inexplicably re-opened and resumed candy production without any evidence of employees.

Soon after, an article in the newspaper reveals that Willy Wonka has hidden a Golden Ticket in five chocolate bars being distributed to anonymous locations worldwide, and that the discovery of a Golden Ticket would grant the owner with passage into Willy Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of confectionery. Charlie longs for chocolate to satisfy his hunger and to find a Golden Ticket himself, but his chances are slim (his father has recently lost his job, leaving the family all but destitute) and word on the discovery of the tickets keeps appearing in various articles read by the Bucket family, each one going to self-centered, bratty children: and obese, gluttonous boy Augustus Gloop , a spoiled brat named Veruca Salt , a record-breaking gum chewer named Violet Beauregarde , and Mike Teavee , an aspiring gangster who is unhealthily obsessed with television. Eventually, Charlie finds a ticket of his own. The children, once in the factory, are taken to the Chocolate Room, where they are introduced to Oompa Loompas, from Loompaland, who have been helping Wonka at the factory.

While there, Augustus falls into the chocolate river and is sucked up by a pipe and eliminated from the tour. They are soon taken to the Inventing Room, where Violet chews a piece of experimental gum, and blows up into a blueberry; she is the second child removed from the tour. After an exhausting jog down a series of corridors, Wonka allows his guests to rest outside of the Nut Room, but refuses them entry. Veruca, seeing squirrels inside, demands one from Wonka, but when she is refused, she invades the Nut Room, where the squirrels attack her, judge her a bad nut and throw her down the garbage chute. Likewise with her parents, who go in to rescue her. The remaining visitors travel via Great Glass Elevator to the Television Room, where Mike accidentally shrinks himself to a few inches tall using a teleporter Wonka invented, and is the last to be eliminated from the tour. Charlie, being the last child left, wins the prize - the factory itself. Wonka had distributed the Golden Tickets to find an heir, and Charlie was the only one who passed the test.

Together they go to Charlie's house in the glass elevator and take the whole family back to the chocolate factory to live out the rest of their lives. Missing chapters 🍫 Edit As "lost chapters" recently found reveal, in unpublished drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory far more than five children got the golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory, far more than four were eliminated, and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self-control. The Fiction Circus reports: "Evidently, Roald Dahl didn't just kill four children in the original version of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' Evidently he killed hundreds! For the sake of time and sales, his editor forced him to take out several murdered children, especially the British ones, sticking with two Americans, an aristocrat, and a German." "Spotty Powder" Edit In 2005, The London Times revealed a "lost" chapter - titled "Spotty Powder" - had been found in Dahl's desk, written backwards in mirror-script (the way Da Vinci wrote in his journal).

This chapter includes a humorless, smug girl (Miranda Piker) and her equally humorless father (a schoolmaster) who disappear into the Spotty Powder room - where a candy is made that makes red, pox-like spots appear on the children's faces and necks making it look like chicken-pox/measles, so they won't have to go to school. This enrages the Pikers, who set out to sabotage the machine. The Fiction Circus explains "The chapter was cut because it implies that Willy Wonka is a cannibal, and that he feeds children to their enemies, just like Polynesian islanders and Titus Andronicus." "Fudge Mountain" Edit In 2014, The Guardian revealed that Dahl had cut another chapter from an earlier draft of the book, titled "Fudge Mountain".

The Guardian reports the now-eliminated passage was "deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiency moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago." In what was originally chapter five in that version of that book, Charlie goes to the factory with his mother - not his grandfather, and the chocolate factory tour, at this point down to eight kids, includes Tommy Troutback and Wilbur Rice, who wind up in the Vanilla Fudge Mountain cutting room, due to their own greed. Additionally, reports NPR's Krishnadev Calamur: "The chapter reveals the original larger cast of characters, and their fates, as well as the original names of some of those who survived into later drafts. Dahl originally intended to send Charlie into the chocolate factory with eight other children, but the number was slimmed down to four.

The narrator reveals that a girl named Miranda Grope had already vanished into the chocolate river with Augustus Pottle: she is gone forever, but the greedy boy was reincarnated into Augustus Gloop." Reception Edit A fan of the book since childhood, Tim Burton states "I responded to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it respected the fact that children can be adults." In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J.K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books every child should read. A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for fourth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. A 2012 survey by the University of Worcester determined that it was one of the most common books that UK adults had read as children, after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and The Wind in the Willows.

Accolades for this book include: New England Round Table of Children's Librarians Award (USA, 1972) Surrey School Award (UK, 1973) Millennium Children's Book Award (UK, 2000) Blue Peter Book Award (UK, 2000) The Big Read poll conducted by the BBC listed the book at number 35 of the "nation's best-loved novels" (UK, 2003) National Education Association "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a poll (USA, 2007) School Library Journal "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time based on a poll (USA, 2012) Unfavorable views and revisions Edit Although the book has been popular and considered a children's classic by many literary critics, a number of prominent individuals have spoken critically of the novel over the years. Dominic Cheetham observers that numerous publishers turned down Dahl's book and even Knopf - the original, American publisher - agreed both that the book was in bad taste and books should not be aimed at both children and adults, as was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Children's novelist and literary historian John Rowe Townsend has described the book as "fantasy of an almost literally nauseating kind" and accused it of "astonishing insensitivity" regarding the original portrayal of the Oompa-Loompas as black pygmies, although Dahl did revise that later. Cheetham notes that no outcry over was raised about the anti-Indian sentiment shown in the "humorless, but belittling" naming of the Indian Prince Pondicherry and the portrayal of the "incredible stupidity in a stereotyped racial icon". Another novelist, Eleanor Cameron, compared the book to the sweets that form its subject matter, commenting that it is "delectable and soothing while we are undergoing the brief sensory pleasure it affords but leave its poorly nourished with our taste of dulled for better fare". Ursula K. Let Guin voiced her support for this assessment in a letter to Cameron. Defenders of the book have pointed out it was unusual for its time in being quite dark for a children's book, with the "antagonists" not being adults or monsters (as in the case for most of Dahl's books) but the naughty children, who receive sadistic punishment in the end.

However, despite criticisms and complaints about the "high-handed way in which Mr Willy Wonka treats other people in the book", Mr. Wonka remains authoritarian, the supposedly tasteless features remain, the violence to the various children remains, and the supposedly dual nature of the intended readership also remains firmly unchanged. Cheetham had catalogued additional criticisms about the book, including: "General Attitudes to Foreigners", citing the treatment of characters who may be perceived as American (Cheetham, p. 10), in addition to the African and Indian characters noted above; "Employer-Employee Relations" (Cheetham, pp. 10-11); "Human Guinea Pigs" (Cheetham, p. 11); "General Attitudes Towards Class" (Cheetham, pp. 11-12); "The Myth of Noble Poverty" (Cheetham, p. 12); "Attitudes to Children" (Cheetham, p. 12); "Attitudes to Parenthood" (Cheetham, pp. 12-13); and "Alcohol Abuse" (Cheetham, p. 13).

The cover art for Penguin UK's Modern Classics 50th Anniversary Edition of the book (publication date September 2014) has also received substantial criticism for his taste level and age-appropriateness. (See Editions.) Adaptation Edit In addition to spawning a sequel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has frequently been adapted for other media, including games, radio, the screen, and stage, most often as plays and musicals for children - often titled Willy Wonka or Willy Wonka, Jr. and almost always featuring musical numbers by all the main characters (Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Violet, Veruca, etc.); many of these songs are revised versions from the 1971 film. The book was first made into a feature film as a musical, titled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), directed by Mel Stuart , produced by David L. Wolper and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka , character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe , and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket. The film had an estimated budget of $2.9 million but grossed only $4 million and was considered a box-office disappointment.

Exponential home video and DVD sales, as well as repeated television airings, resulted in the film subsequently becoming a cult classic. Concurrently with the 1971 film, the Quaker Oats Company introduced a line of candies whose marketing uses the book's characters and imagery. The BBC produced an adaptation for Radio 4 in the early 1980s. In 1985, the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video game was released for the ZX Spectrum by developers Soft Option Ltd and publisher Hill MacGibbon. Another film version, titled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket, Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, and Geoffrey Holder as the Narrator, was a hit, grossing about $470 million worldwide with an estimated budget of $150 million. The 1971 and 2005 films are consistent with the written work to varying degrees. The Burton film greatly expanded Willy Wonka's personal back-story borrowing many themes and elements from the book's sequel.

Both films heavily expanded the personalities of the four bad children and their parents from the limited descriptions in the book. A video game, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory based on Burton's adaptation, was released on 11 July 2005. On 1 April 2006, the British theme park, Alton Towers , opened a family attraction themed around the story. The ride features a boat section, where guests travel along the chocolate factory in bright pink boats on a chocolate river. In the final stage of the ride, guests enter one of two glass elevators, where they join Willy Wonka as they travel round the factory, eventually shooting up and out through the glass roof. The Estate of Roald Dahl sanctioned an operatic adaptation called The Golden Ticket. It is written by American composer Peter Ash and British librettist Donald Sturrock . The Golden Ticket has completely original music and was commissioned by American Lyric Theater , Lawrence Edelson (producing artistic director), and Felicity Dahl . The opera received its world premiere at Opera Theater of Saint Louis on 13 June 2010, in a co-production with American Lyric Theater and Wexford Festival Opera .

A musical based on the novel called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical premiered at the West End's Theater Royal, Dury Lane in May 2013 and officially opened on 25 June. The show is directed by Sam Mendes and stars Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka. Editions Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has undergone numerous editions and been illustrated by numerous artists. Books

Question: Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee are characters in which 1964 children’s novel?
Answer: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY